Noriaki Fukuyama

Noriaki Fukuyama (福山 伯明, Fukuyama Noriaki, 1912 – 1946) was a Japanese botanist and orchidologist. He died in Taiwan[1]

Noriaki Fukuyama
Born1912
Died1946
Taiwan
Cause of deathmurdered
NationalityJapanese
Alma materTaihoku Imperial University
Known forStudy of South East Asian Orchids
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsTaihoku High School
Academic advisorsGenkei Masamune

During his short life, Dr. Fukuyama described over a hundred new species of orchids from Micronesia, the Ryukyus and Taiwan. Most of the type specimens he collected were housed in his personal herbarium (Herb. Orch. Fuk.), located in Taiwan, and were previously believed to have been lost amid the upheaval in Japan following the close of World War II. However, most of Fukuyama's type materials of Taiwan orchids were rediscovered, in the course of sifting through the botanical collection of one Dr. Genkei Masamune, which Masamune had bequeathed to the herbarium of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History upon his death in 1993. Although it is not entirely clear as to why he had them, it is known that Fukuyama had been Masamune's pupil.[1]

Among the materials found were Fukuyama's original manuscripts of Studia Orchidacearum Japonicarum, Vols. XI thru XIII.[1]

Suffering from cancer, and plagued by local unrest in Taiwan against the Japanese, he was killed by locals in a nearby village during a local uprising against Japanese citizens living in Taiwan.

Sources
  1. "Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History". Digital Archives Project. National Taiwan University Herbarium. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  2. IPNI.  Fukuy.



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